NoiseLevelCheck

Paul, ID Noise Levels

Is Paul, ID noisy?

Paul, ID sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Paul's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.

Where Paul ranks

Paul is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 1,722 people live there, making it the 8,227th largest place in this dataset.

Your street may differ from Paul's reading

This page describes Paul as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

Behind Paul's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Paul's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Paul isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.